If you have a mountain of work or a huge project, do not- and I repeat, do NOT – begin by making a list of everything you need to do. Chances are, you’ll just freak yourself out with the immensity of the task.
Instead, don’t think about the project or the list of tasks at all. Just take a tiny sliver of the work and concentrate on doing it, shutting out the rest. And then do another small sliver.
I finished a huge report today that felt daunting until I stopped thinking about how much work it needed and concentrated on tiny little slivers of the job. I thought it would take me at least another week, but somehow I ran out of slivers and discovered that the report is done.
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